college park killing. >> two university of maryland students gunned down. >> who police say pulled the trigger. >> >> hello, again, lear's what people are talking about today. a shocking attack near the university of maryland college park police say two students are dead in an apparent murder/suicide. another remains hospitalized. develop tor mike it there with the latest details >> good afternoon. we are on 36th avenue. the campus is a is short walk over that way. the house is here behind me. at this point, police have not said anything about a motive. they are working to identify the victims and working to notify their families. they have recovered the weapon. this is a picture from inside of the home steps. where police say they set a

fire. >> he shot them both and shot and killed himself. >> the preliminary investigation reveals that the suspect that lived in the home set a fire in the base machine. two of his roommates went downstairs to see what was happening. all three of them left the home and went to the front of the house. that's when the suspects started to shoot. >> one of the victims was shot tie trying to run away. more remnants of a fire outside and remnants of an s.u.v. out front. >> i heard the gunfire shots. six to sovereign shots you got the impression immediately it was not fireworks. >> it was definitely a shock. definitely unsettling to be that close to home. >> university police are

assisting prince george's couldn'ty police, police tell us that injured student's injuries are not life- threatening, but he remains in the hospital in serious condition at last check. >> live in college park. mike, thank you, please stay with us -- to read the university's statement in its entirety, go to the website. >> >> most of us were stunned to hear pope benedict xvi will be stepping down at the end of the month. upon reflection baltimore archbishop william lloyd said he was not. he said the pope had been signaling he would step down when he could no longer do the job. now that that day is coming. the pontiff will not help choose or choose his successor. .

we are learning more about a braze brazen courthouse shooting. police say the gunman did know one of the victims, ron has more. >> >> good afternoon, police say the gunman was the exfather-in- law of one of the two women killed in the shooting. police say the 68-year-old man walked into the courthouse in wilmington and opened fire. his former daughter-in-law and another woman were killed. the women were at the courthouse for a child support hearing regarding the shooter's son. jessica, back to you. >> >> investigators say the two families have been in a bitter child custody dispute for years. police say 35-year-old amanda miller was a teacher and had sex with a 15-year-old

student last year. she is charged with sexual abuse of a minor and has been released after posting $50,000 bond. >> >> a 24-year-old high school teacher who taught at manchester valley high was driving when his car slid into the bus. five students were on the bus. none of them injured, investigators believe an icy patch of pavement contributed to that accident. >> >> north korea performs another nuclear test despite warnings from the un, north korea said this nuclear test was merely a step toward the goal of building a number bomb small enough to be mounted on a rocket. president obama is ill coulding this highly provocative. >> that provocative act threatens to hijack president obama's message during his first state of the union

address since reeelyion. the president had planned on focusing on the economy, but as sioux an mcginn miss reports, that may not be an option any more. >> >> putting the economy front and sen it in his state of the union address. work hard, everybody get as fair shot, fair shake and if we do that together, our nation will be stronger. >> the president is givenning the annual speech before congress and the american people are unemployment hovering -- drastic cuts and military spending getting ready to sock the economy if the president and congress can't reach a deal to stop them. >> the first thing we will be listening for is the president >> the president will make room in his speech and plans to announce 34,000 u.s. troops will be home from afghanistan by this time next year.

president obama is expected to speak about new gun laws with many victims of gun violence in chamber. some of the victims stood at a senate hearing earlier today and will join their lawmakers as guests. many lawmakers remain opposed to high capacity magazines. >> in my view tripping the constitutional rights of law- abiding citizens does nothing to prevent criminals from carrying out violence crimes. >> with congress so divided. the president will hit the road after his speech to take his agenda directly to the american people. on capital hill, sioux an mcginn is, "wjz" "eyewitness news." >> >> you can watch tonight's state of the union address right here on "wjz" 13. our coverage begins tonight at 9:00. talking a live look outside. gorgeous day, big change from the clouds and rain, how long

is this going to last? that complete coverage for you, marty bass and bernadette woods in the weather center. >> we comfortable. 49 degrees in baltimore, 50s down to our south and cooler spot being open only at 34 degrees. we are opening this up. first warning doppler radar because all of this moisture that hung from the south, generating the new storm system, it is moving our way tomorrow. more more on how thatly out for us, we'll send it to marty. >> >> border line event no, a little mix, a little rain. it's not going to be an enormous huge winter weather concern, this is going to be more of an annoyian. there are a couple of factors in our favor. we have a fairly mild pool of

air over us, it has been fairly mild the past few days, the ground is not all that necessarily cold. it may be at the end tomorrow evening, more sloppy than a problem. additional moisture believe it. there are just -- there are factors trending for the better for us. meteorologist bernadette woods takes a closer look at what we hope is an annoyian during our first warning weather segment. back to you. >> >> listen up bargain hunters, tax-free shopping coming to maryland. for the third year in a row. sales tax will not be collected on energy star appliances. on the list for tax-free items saving consumers money and

helping the environment. you can buy them tax-free saturday february 16th through monday february 1th. still to come, behind bars, police make an arrest -- a long way home, a crippled cruise ship slowly makes its way back to port. the latest on the thousands of people trapped onboard. >> >> a lot of sunshine, a pretty mild day. i have heard that snowflakes may be in our forecast. the more complete version of that is still coming up. .

police make arrests in the murder case of a 15-year-old chicago girl who was shot days after performing at the president's inauguration. police say two gang members are charged in the death of pendleton. last month the men allegedly opened fire on a group of students sitting in the park. police think they mistook one of the students as a member of a rival gang. . the cruise ship is being towed to mobile, alabama and is expected to arrive there thursday. >> >> hundreds of thousands will be letting the good times roll for fat tuesday in new orleans. today, mardi gras celebrations kicked off a couple of weeks ago and will end at mitt night

tonight. tomorrow is ash wednesday, marking the start of lent. . still ahead, at noon, cloud says of yesterday are gone. sunshine today. your complete first warning forecast now 2 1/2 minutes away. >> >> first, here as a look at last night, winning multimatch number. .

welcome back everybody, beautiful sunshine out there, today, get out and enjoy. it's sunny, temperatures are very comfortable. 50 degrees in baltimore. a lot of 50s to our south and out to the west, we are in the 40s. not quite as warm as yesterday in some cases with the wind out of the northwest, but still way above average. average is 44 degrees. winds will be gusting at times this afternoon. temperatures dropping to the 30s overnight. we get up close to 40 degrees. at the same time, we'lling directing our attention to the southwest where a new system is coming our way. a lot of moisture, the front has moved through, sort of stalled out. regaining strength and that will move to the north in our

direction. the way it works out for us. during the day, a rain storm -- tomorrow night, when the center passes by, colder air and it's going to be -- real good supply of cold air. in addition to that with the sun setting, a chance for accumulation tomorrow night into the early morning hours of thursday before the storm system gets out of here we low freezing. a wet snow that we'll be dealing with. here's a storm coming up from the south, wednesday through early thursday morning. it gets out of here and we will gentlemen some colder air coming our way with the system here and it may bring a rain/snow mix as we head through the weekend the forecast looks like this.

beautiful out there, 53 degrees. tonight, we are going down into the 30s. that's about it, then, tomorrow, the clouds come in. we are going up to 40 degrees and then a rain breaks out in the form of rain. rain breaks out changing over to snow. tomorrow night through the overnight hours, we may see some accumulations. >> >> still to come at noon. don't believe what you read. why doctors say the labels on a popular vitamin supplement may be very inaccurate, details coming up. >> >> we have today's cold, cuff and flu report

>> high blood pressure during pregnancy could signal risk later in life. researchers found women that

had high blood pressure during pregnancy were two to five times more likely to die from heart attacks and more likely to come down with kidney disease ordinate. >> >> be sure to check in with us at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00 >> "wjz" is in college park. we'll have the very latest from police in the university of maryland murder/suicide. please join us for these

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welcome back, here's the five-day forecast with marty >> it's going to be pretty mild for the weekend. we tacked about tomorrow's potential. 47 saturday, 40 saturday. sunday is going to be a cold february day with temperatures down in the mid-30s. other than this, pretty much at or above norm. i'll throw it back inside. >> >> open two more shopping days, marty bass. don't miss our prime time lineup at 9:00. we'll have live coverage of president obama's state of the union address and followed by -- if love is a battlefield, your banking account is a casualty especially around valentine's day. according to a new study, $18.6 billion will be spent on

valentine's day this year. researchers say the average men are spending twice as much as the average women. >> not at our house. >> >> we are defying the odds at our house >> thanks for watching "eyewitness news" on "wjz" 13. great to see you.